Sydney FC deserve to be top of the A-League but owe a lot of their success this season to sheer luck, according to Brisbane Roar defender Jade North.Riding high on the back of a six-game winning streak, the Sky Blues take on the Roar - who are unbeaten in their last four games - at Suncorp Stadium on Saturday night.A win for the visitors will equal the best-ever start to an A-League season by any team, while third-placed Brisbane can reduce the margin between the sides to five points if they can produce an upset.However, as impressive as theyve been, North believes Sydney have been quite fortunate not to have let in more goals.Obviously Sydney are flying at the moment but having said that, theyve been quite lucky as well, not conceding as many as I thought they maybe should have, North told reporters on Tuesday.They deserve to be where they are but Perth were a little bit unlucky on the weekend with a couple of chances.But youve got to ride your luck sometimes. Theyve been quite dominant in the front third.Both sides should be at full strength, with Brisbane to regain striker Jamie Maclaren, who made his competitive debut for the Socceroos in Tuesday nights 2-2 draw with Thailand.Sydney has won just three times in 17 attempts at Suncorp Stadium but wont be taking any notice of history after setting two new records - the longest winning sequence in club history, and the most goals (17) scored by any team in the first six rounds of a season.Asked if the Sky Blues would be Brisbanes biggest test this season, North said: To this point in time, it will be.Weve got some great players all over the park and I feel we can really hurt them as well.Defensively weve been quite solid over the last month and when we start hitting teams and getting some confidence and getting goals, were not too far away from giving a team a good hiding.Joe Montana 49ers Jersey . -- Aldon Smith believes he is on the path to being sober for good. 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Definitely difficult positions to start the race tomorrow, 15th and 17th are not the best places for the two McLarens, especially after some races we were used to being in Q3 and fighting for the points.So it seems to be a step backwards here, especially yesterday and Saturday, so we need to find some speed for tomorrow ... some weather change, some rain will help us recover some places. But we need to analyse why we underperformed.Alonso thinks McLaren is still struggling to find the ideal set-up on bboth cars.ddddddddddddSo far it has been disappointing, no doubt. Its not great for our home grand prix but we didnt find the speed all weekend long, were struggling with the high-speed performance and straight-line performance.Difficult to balance this in terms of downforce choices, etc, so not the ideal place to start the race but hopefully we can recover some places, maybe some rain around tomorrow because in a normal race, normal circumstances it will be difficult to gain places.Though admitting its been a step backwards, Alonso does not believe it is a sign McLaren and Hondas latest upgrades have gone in the wrong direction.I think everything is working. Five days ago we were performing really well in Malaysia. Its just circuit to circuit seems to change the performance of the car, or our competitors - here it seems Force India and Haas are running very quick, in Singapore Toro Rosso was running very quick. So depending circuit to circuit and this one is probably not in our sight, so we need to understand why. ' ' '